the idea of the Supreme
Court's tendency since 1947
to put No Establishment and the
Free exercise of Religion against
each other, seemed to him
fundamentally wrong-headed
and a basic misreading of
the constitution. The whole
point of not having a government-established
church is to create the
free space for the free
exercise of belief.

the idea that the pro-life
movement is the natural,
moral successor to the civil
rights movement because
the moral truths on which
the pro-life movement is
based are the same moral
truths that inform the struggle
for civil rights.